Currently Reading

Currently reading: On the Edge by Nate Silver 📚

Currently Watching

• The Bear, Season 3

Currently In Queue

• Challengers
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Furiosa
• The First Omen
• Skinamarink

Currently Listening

Currently Planning

• October: Eastern Shore
• November: Palm Springs for Eric’s wedding (maybe Vegas on the back end?)
• December: post-Christmas trip to Kentucky
• January: Ski Trip to Québec Charlevoix

Concurrently

• I was going to write about the shit show that summer is, but Annie Mueller–per usual– does a much more elegant job of it than I ever could. Summer is fun, but I’m glad the kids are back in school and we can finally get back to our normal lives.
• The stars aligned and we were able to book our annual ski trip. Heading back to Quebec Charlevoix at the end of January! One of these years we’ll go somewhere else, but this is not that year.
• We’re going to see Bruce Springsteen at Nats Park and Weezer at The Anthem a week apart! Been a long time since I’ve gone to two concerts in a week!

Finished in August:

A Quiet Place: Day One: I’m probably higher on this series than most, but this story plays to the strength of the film medium. So while it may not be breaking new ground, every filmmaker in the series knows enough to get out of the way and let the movie do what the story does best

Trip: West Coast: Portland, Bay Area, Los Angeles, Disneyland

Slow Horses, Season 3: Spy stories tend to either be an intricate puzzlebox (ala John le Carré novels) or straight-forward action (ala James Bond). This season somehow pulled off both. Couldn’t be more excited for Season 4 next month

Finished reading: How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur 📚 From the creator of The Good Place, an easy-to-digest summary of the major moral philosophies. I have a few quibbles with some things that he left out, but I appreciate how Schur ties all of these seemingly disparate concepts together.

House of the Dragon, Season 2: at its height, there were so many characters I cared about on Game of Thrones. But this just lurches from one thing to the next– it’s like my four-year old telling a story

Still the production values are so high, it’s worth watching. There’s nothing else like it on TV

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